eXo project

Qt frontend to MOC (Music on Console) player. Combination of eXo and MOC gives you a modern yet very minimalistic audio player.

Features:

• Lyrics from web
• Background mode
• DBus and MPRISv2 interfaces. Enables media controls in your desktop environment
• Scrobbling to last.fm (optional)
• Bookmarks for radio streams
• OSD notifications
• Optional CMus support
• Optional Spotify client support (limited functionality, scrobbling only)

See man exo for more information on command line options.

Build dependencies

CMake, QtBase, QtTools, LibLastfm (optional)

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev liblastfm5-dev cmake

Runtime dependencies

moc, cmus(?), spotify(?)

Build and run

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBUILD_LASTFM=ON ..
make -j2
./src/exo

Build options:

BUILD_LASTFM=OFF # disable scrobbler module (enabled by default)
WITH_QT6=ON      # build with Qt6 (disabled by default)

Screenshot

Installation on Ubuntu

# stable releases
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/main
sudo apt update
sudo apt install exo-player

# development snapshots
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/dev
sudo apt update
sudo apt install exo-player

Background mode (no GUI or X-session needed)

Basic running

exo -d 2>/tmp/exo_errors.log &

Scrobbler (re)authentication

exo --force-reauth

Shutting down the app

qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.exo\
  /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Quit

or

pkill -2 exo

Tips

Create a global hotkey to see the lyrics at any time by assigning the command below to a desired shortcut

qdbus local.exo_player /exo local.exo_player.showLyricsWindow